Steps and calorie adjustments

jennydelgado09
jennydelgado09 Posts: 119 Member
edited November 22 in Health and Weight Loss
Do you include steps into your calorie adjustments? Mfp is connected to my garmin and it gives me calorie adjustments for steps taken plus my exercise calories. But I really don't think steps throughout the day should count.

Like yesterday I had a little under 3000 steps(don't walk much at work and didn't workout yesterday) but gave me a calorie adjustment of about 240 calories. That seems like a lot for so little walking.

So wanted to see if others count their steps. And I'm talking about so little steps, just normal walking. Not if you're going out of your way to get 10,000 steps or so. Then I get you would count that.
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  • ihp2015
    ihp2015 Posts: 221 Member
    @jennydelgado09: The question I have for you is: are you thinking of eating the calories that you earn through exercise? I, myself, don't eat the calories that I burn, so although it's nice to see the calorie adjustment, I don't do anything with them and therefore it doesn't really matter if it's accurate or not ;)
  • celiah909
    celiah909 Posts: 141 Member
    My Apple Watch is also connected but if I hit around 8000 steps I get a 55 calorie or so adjustment. I wonder why they differ so greatly.
  • tinkerbellang83
    tinkerbellang83 Posts: 9,140 Member
    edited October 2017
    Your Garmin adjustment is for the difference between your anticipated activity level and your actual activity level.

    So for example I have my MFP account set to Lightly Active which accounts for around 5000 steps before I start to receive a positive calorie adjustment. Even if for some reason I don't walk to/from work, I tend to hit at least 4000 steps per day so this means my base calories are about correct even for a normal inactive day.

    On an active day, I would walk 3km to work, 3 km back + approximately 4000 incidental steps for the day. Even when I don't walk at a fast pace that's about an extra 300 calories burned over my day before I go running, do some cardio or some strength training.

    If I didn't eat them that would put me in an 800 calorie deficit instead of the 500 calorie deficit I want to be at, and I would be losing weight too quickly.

    If you're new to syncing your Garmin for calorie adjustments, try eating 50% back for 4-6 weeks, see how your average weight loss compares to your intended weight loss and adjust as needed.
  • gracejks01
    gracejks01 Posts: 5 Member
    I have a garmin as well and it syncs to mfp but it is not giving me any calorie adjustment:(
  • CyberTone
    CyberTone Posts: 7,337 Member
    celiah909 wrote: »
    My Apple Watch is also connected but if I hit around 8000 steps I get a 55 calorie or so adjustment. I wonder why they differ so greatly.

    What is your MFP Activity Level set at? If it is above Sedentary/Not Very Active, most of the Calories from those steps may already be accounted for in your MFP Calorie goal. Also, how aggressive is your weekly loss rate? If you chose two pounds per week, your deficit (1000 Cals/day for 2lb. loss/week) may affect the adjustment. Did you do and record purposeful exercise on your Apple Watch? If so, some of the Calories from the steps may be reduced because of the additional Calories earned from logged exercise.
  • VintageFeline
    VintageFeline Posts: 6,771 Member
    I just got an upgrade on my Garmin, I am getting a higher adjustment now the I have OHR but having thought about it, it probably makes sense. I vacuum every. single. day. because I live with three cats and then there's other housework stuff. On a doing stuff round the house heavy day but with few steps because I'm not striding down the street I get about 200 calories. On a lazy day with 300 steps I got about 50 calories. So to me it's looking like it might actually be sensible and would explain why I often feel lacklustre, I had reduced my NEAT because i wasn't eating quite enough.

    All that said, start with eating some of those calories back and adjust as necessary.
  • VintageFeline
    VintageFeline Posts: 6,771 Member
    CyberTone wrote: »
    celiah909 wrote: »
    My Apple Watch is also connected but if I hit around 8000 steps I get a 55 calorie or so adjustment. I wonder why they differ so greatly.

    What is your MFP Activity Level set at? If it is above Sedentary/Not Very Active, most of the Calories from those steps may already be accounted for in your MFP Calorie goal. Also, how aggressive is your weekly loss rate? If you chose two pounds per week, your deficit (1000 Cals/day for 2lb. loss/week) may affect the adjustment. Did you do and record purposeful exercise on your Apple Watch? If so, some of the Calories from the steps may be reduced because of the additional Calories earned from logged exercise.

    Nope. It doesn't matter what you pick as your activity level, when MFP and Garmin talk to each other they adjust on the basis of what you've told them. And if you have negative adjustments enabled then if you're under your stated activity level it will take calories away. But really if you have a tracker you should just have it set to sedentary.
  • VintageFeline
    VintageFeline Posts: 6,771 Member
    celiah909 wrote: »
    My Apple Watch is also connected but if I hit around 8000 steps I get a 55 calorie or so adjustment. I wonder why they differ so greatly.

    That sounds like way too few. In fact, unless you have your activity level set to active then it is definitely too few. For most people that would at least be into the 200+ calories.
  • ihp2015
    ihp2015 Posts: 221 Member
    WinoGelato wrote: »
    ihp2015 wrote: »
    @jennydelgado09: The question I have for you is: are you thinking of eating the calories that you earn through exercise? I, myself, don't eat the calories that I burn, so although it's nice to see the calorie adjustment, I don't do anything with them and therefore it doesn't really matter if it's accurate or not ;)

    Why don't you eat the calories back? MFP is designed to calculate a goal for you assuming no activity at all, so that when you do exercise, or even are just very active from daily activity, eating back at least some of those calories ensures that you don't have too large of a deficit.

    I'm currently working with a dietician and she created a food plan based on 1700-1800 cals. When I noticed that MFP was making a calorie adjustment based on my daily activity, I asked her if I should be eating these extra calories either in part or all. She told me that I didn't need to eat those calories, but if I felt I needed the calories after exercise, I could take an extra snack of 100-200 cals.
  • hydechildcare
    hydechildcare Posts: 142 Member
    I have a fitbit. My active on MFP is set to sedentary due to a desk job. Usually it takes about 3,500 steps to get any calories added to my MFP. The only time I eat any exercise calories back is if I am hungry otherwise I leave them there. I found that I need those calorie for 2 days after weight lifting. I am starving. I recently just started and I hope the day 2 hunger goes away.
  • TeaBea
    TeaBea Posts: 14,517 Member
    edited October 2017
    ihp2015 wrote: »
    WinoGelato wrote: »
    ihp2015 wrote: »
    @jennydelgado09: The question I have for you is: are you thinking of eating the calories that you earn through exercise? I, myself, don't eat the calories that I burn, so although it's nice to see the calorie adjustment, I don't do anything with them and therefore it doesn't really matter if it's accurate or not ;)

    Why don't you eat the calories back? MFP is designed to calculate a goal for you assuming no activity at all, so that when you do exercise, or even are just very active from daily activity, eating back at least some of those calories ensures that you don't have too large of a deficit.

    I'm currently working with a dietician and she created a food plan based on 1700-1800 cals. When I noticed that MFP was making a calorie adjustment based on my daily activity, I asked her if I should be eating these extra calories either in part or all. She told me that I didn't need to eat those calories, but if I felt I needed the calories after exercise, I could take an extra snack of 100-200 cals.

    Aahhh - you are using an outside source for your calorie allotment. That's different from most MFP users. People with settings from MFP get a calorie allotment BEFORE exercise (based on activity level).......so eating back exercise calories is how this website is designed. This is why activity trackers synced to MFP give you earned calories when you go over your stated activity level.

    OP - this seems generous. Sedentary is under 5,000 so you should double check the setting on your device.
  • jennydelgado09
    jennydelgado09 Posts: 119 Member
    TeaBea wrote: »
    ihp2015 wrote: »
    WinoGelato wrote: »
    ihp2015 wrote: »
    @jennydelgado09: The question I have for you is: are you thinking of eating the calories that you earn through exercise? I, myself, don't eat the calories that I burn, so although it's nice to see the calorie adjustment, I don't do anything with them and therefore it doesn't really matter if it's accurate or not ;)

    Why don't you eat the calories back? MFP is designed to calculate a goal for you assuming no activity at all, so that when you do exercise, or even are just very active from daily activity, eating back at least some of those calories ensures that you don't have too large of a deficit.

    I'm currently working with a dietician and she created a food plan based on 1700-1800 cals. When I noticed that MFP was making a calorie adjustment based on my daily activity, I asked her if I should be eating these extra calories either in part or all. She told me that I didn't need to eat those calories, but if I felt I needed the calories after exercise, I could take an extra snack of 100-200 cals.

    Aahhh - you are using an outside source for your calorie allotment. That's different from most MFP users. People with settings from MFP get a calorie allotment BEFORE exercise (based on activity level).......so eating back exercise calories is how this website is designed. This is why activity trackers synced to MFP give you earned calories when you go over your stated activity level.

    OP - this seems generous. Sedentary is under 5,000 so you should double check the setting on your device.

    It is set at sedentary. Should I change my activity level? I'm on my butt the majority of the day but i workout 4 days a week and starting next week I'll be working out 7 days a week with 2x a day 4-5 days. I'm adding more weightlifting and starting yoga. (Faster Weightloss not being the focus but would be nice lol. Trying to get stronger and more flexible, i pop and crack too much lol)
  • TeaBea
    TeaBea Posts: 14,517 Member
    TeaBea wrote: »
    ihp2015 wrote: »
    WinoGelato wrote: »
    ihp2015 wrote: »
    @jennydelgado09: The question I have for you is: are you thinking of eating the calories that you earn through exercise? I, myself, don't eat the calories that I burn, so although it's nice to see the calorie adjustment, I don't do anything with them and therefore it doesn't really matter if it's accurate or not ;)

    Why don't you eat the calories back? MFP is designed to calculate a goal for you assuming no activity at all, so that when you do exercise, or even are just very active from daily activity, eating back at least some of those calories ensures that you don't have too large of a deficit.

    I'm currently working with a dietician and she created a food plan based on 1700-1800 cals. When I noticed that MFP was making a calorie adjustment based on my daily activity, I asked her if I should be eating these extra calories either in part or all. She told me that I didn't need to eat those calories, but if I felt I needed the calories after exercise, I could take an extra snack of 100-200 cals.

    Aahhh - you are using an outside source for your calorie allotment. That's different from most MFP users. People with settings from MFP get a calorie allotment BEFORE exercise (based on activity level).......so eating back exercise calories is how this website is designed. This is why activity trackers synced to MFP give you earned calories when you go over your stated activity level.

    OP - this seems generous. Sedentary is under 5,000 so you should double check the setting on your device.

    It is set at sedentary. Should I change my activity level? I'm on my butt the majority of the day but i workout 4 days a week and starting next week I'll be working out 7 days a week with 2x a day 4-5 days. I'm adding more weightlifting and starting yoga. (Faster Weightloss not being the focus but would be nice lol. Trying to get stronger and more flexible, i pop and crack too much lol)

    Workouts are a separate thing from activity level (in MFP). If you are set at sedentary, doing workouts (but not logging them).....then the additional calories make sense. If you bump your activity level up you will get more calories (and adjustments will be smaller).
  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    edited October 2017
    I absolutely do. I did 19,000 steps yesterday and was starving at dinnertime. Those extra calories come in handy.
  • Dnarules
    Dnarules Posts: 2,081 Member
    CyberTone wrote: »
    celiah909 wrote: »
    My Apple Watch is also connected but if I hit around 8000 steps I get a 55 calorie or so adjustment. I wonder why they differ so greatly.

    What is your MFP Activity Level set at? If it is above Sedentary/Not Very Active, most of the Calories from those steps may already be accounted for in your MFP Calorie goal. Also, how aggressive is your weekly loss rate? If you chose two pounds per week, your deficit (1000 Cals/day for 2lb. loss/week) may affect the adjustment. Did you do and record purposeful exercise on your Apple Watch? If so, some of the Calories from the steps may be reduced because of the additional Calories earned from logged exercise.

    Nope. It doesn't matter what you pick as your activity level, when MFP and Garmin talk to each other they adjust on the basis of what you've told them. And if you have negative adjustments enabled then if you're under your stated activity level it will take calories away. But really if you have a tracker you should just have it set to sedentary.

    While it doesn't matter, he is saying it will impact the calorie adjustment, which is why individuals may differ. If you are set at sedentary and have an active day, you will get a large adjustment. But if you are already set at active, your adjustment will be much smaller. So two people on here can't really compare their adjustments without considering activity level, because that may be a big part of the difference. I think that is what he is trying to convey.
  • Hartline5880
    Hartline5880 Posts: 1 Member
    gracejks01 wrote: »
    I have a garmin as well and it syncs to mfp but it is not giving me any calorie adjustment:(


    i HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM! AH! its driving me crazy... i have even uninstalled, disconnected, restarted and nothing is showing my burned calories anymore wont even register steps... i am so peeved because it worked perfect for 2 straight days. Anyone know how to fix this step by step?


  • misnomer1
    misnomer1 Posts: 646 Member
    edited October 2017
    Do you include steps into your calorie adjustments? Mfp is connected to my garmin and it gives me calorie adjustments for steps taken plus my exercise calories. But I really don't think steps throughout the day should count.

    Like yesterday I had a little under 3000 steps(don't walk much at work and didn't workout yesterday) but gave me a calorie adjustment of about 240 calories. That seems like a lot for so little walking.

    So wanted to see if others count their steps. And I'm talking about so little steps, just normal walking. Not if you're going out of your way to get 10,000 steps or so. Then I get you would count that.

    Even with activity level setting of 'sedentary' that no of 240 for 3000 steps seems very wrong. I had a similar issue when i synced google fit steps with mfp. So i removed the sync.
    Clearly, your activity is just being logged as exercise without taking activity level into account at all. To confirm this, change mfp activity level to the highest setting and walk very few steps tomorrow as well. If you still see a similar number (instead of a big negative), something is wrong.
  • Psychgrrl
    Psychgrrl Posts: 3,177 Member
    celiah909 wrote: »
    My Apple Watch is also connected but if I hit around 8000 steps I get a 55 calorie or so adjustment. I wonder why they differ so greatly.

    That sounds like way too few. In fact, unless you have your activity level set to active then it is definitely too few. For most people that would at least be into the 200+ calories.

    If her MFP activity level is lightly active or active, that would account for the difference. My adjustment from Garmin is much bigger when I’m set to sedentary than when I’m set to active. Though my active calorie goal is higher as well.

    For me, I’m consistent with my activity and between the two, it’s a wash—they’re pretty much the same. Active with higher starting calorie goal and less adjustment for my steps or sedentary with a lower starting calorie goal and more adjustment for my steps. I also have negative calorie adjustments enabled, just in case.
  • Psychgrrl
    Psychgrrl Posts: 3,177 Member
    gracejks01 wrote: »
    I have a garmin as well and it syncs to mfp but it is not giving me any calorie adjustment:(


    i HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM! AH! its driving me crazy... i have even uninstalled, disconnected, restarted and nothing is showing my burned calories anymore wont even register steps... i am so peeved because it worked perfect for 2 straight days. Anyone know how to fix this step by step?


    I synced fine today. Did you try contacting Garmin support?
  • celiah909
    celiah909 Posts: 141 Member
    edited October 2017
    CyberTone wrote: »
    celiah909 wrote: »
    My Apple Watch is also connected but if I hit around 8000 steps I get a 55 calorie or so adjustment. I wonder why they differ so greatly.

    What is your MFP Activity Level set at? If it is above Sedentary/Not Very Active, most of the Calories from those steps may already be accounted for in your MFP Calorie goal. Also, how aggressive is your weekly loss rate? If you chose two pounds per week, your deficit (1000 Cals/day for 2lb. loss/week) may affect the adjustment. Did you do and record purposeful exercise on your Apple Watch? If so, some of the Calories from the steps may be reduced because of the additional Calories earned from logged exercise.

    I am actually set at the lowest -- sedentary
    Edit to add: I need to go check but I am pretty sure I am at .5 per week. I need to look more into this.
  • celiah909
    celiah909 Posts: 141 Member
    celiah909 wrote: »
    CyberTone wrote: »
    celiah909 wrote: »
    My Apple Watch is also connected but if I hit around 8000 steps I get a 55 calorie or so adjustment. I wonder why they differ so greatly.

    What is your MFP Activity Level set at? If it is above Sedentary/Not Very Active, most of the Calories from those steps may already be accounted for in your MFP Calorie goal. Also, how aggressive is your weekly loss rate? If you chose two pounds per week, your deficit (1000 Cals/day for 2lb. loss/week) may affect the adjustment. Did you do and record purposeful exercise on your Apple Watch? If so, some of the Calories from the steps may be reduced because of the additional Calories earned from logged exercise.

    I am actually set at the lowest -- sedentary
    Edit to add: I need to go check but I am pretty sure I am at .5 per week. I need to look more into this.

    I went to look cause a few days ago I verified I had a little over 8000 steps and a 30 calorie adjustment. Looks like my adjustment comes from what MFP says I burn in a day and what data my watch gives -- whatever the difference is ends up being my adjustment.

    Sorry to derail

  • WinoGelato
    WinoGelato Posts: 13,454 Member
    celiah909 wrote: »
    celiah909 wrote: »
    CyberTone wrote: »
    celiah909 wrote: »
    My Apple Watch is also connected but if I hit around 8000 steps I get a 55 calorie or so adjustment. I wonder why they differ so greatly.

    What is your MFP Activity Level set at? If it is above Sedentary/Not Very Active, most of the Calories from those steps may already be accounted for in your MFP Calorie goal. Also, how aggressive is your weekly loss rate? If you chose two pounds per week, your deficit (1000 Cals/day for 2lb. loss/week) may affect the adjustment. Did you do and record purposeful exercise on your Apple Watch? If so, some of the Calories from the steps may be reduced because of the additional Calories earned from logged exercise.

    I am actually set at the lowest -- sedentary
    Edit to add: I need to go check but I am pretty sure I am at .5 per week. I need to look more into this.

    I went to look cause a few days ago I verified I had a little over 8000 steps and a 30 calorie adjustment. Looks like my adjustment comes from what MFP says I burn in a day and what data my watch gives -- whatever the difference is ends up being my adjustment.

    Sorry to derail

    Which is what I mentioned in my post upthread... It is mostly from the number of steps but it is also related to your total calorie burn. People who underestimate their activity level when they set up MFP, and then the tracker shows that they are more active than MFP calculates - end up with larger adjustments than people who set their activity to lightly active or active and then the tracker agrees with that assessment.
  • celiah909
    celiah909 Posts: 141 Member
    WinoGelato wrote: »
    celiah909 wrote: »
    celiah909 wrote: »
    CyberTone wrote: »
    celiah909 wrote: »
    My Apple Watch is also connected but if I hit around 8000 steps I get a 55 calorie or so adjustment. I wonder why they differ so greatly.

    What is your MFP Activity Level set at? If it is above Sedentary/Not Very Active, most of the Calories from those steps may already be accounted for in your MFP Calorie goal. Also, how aggressive is your weekly loss rate? If you chose two pounds per week, your deficit (1000 Cals/day for 2lb. loss/week) may affect the adjustment. Did you do and record purposeful exercise on your Apple Watch? If so, some of the Calories from the steps may be reduced because of the additional Calories earned from logged exercise.

    I am actually set at the lowest -- sedentary
    Edit to add: I need to go check but I am pretty sure I am at .5 per week. I need to look more into this.

    I went to look cause a few days ago I verified I had a little over 8000 steps and a 30 calorie adjustment. Looks like my adjustment comes from what MFP says I burn in a day and what data my watch gives -- whatever the difference is ends up being my adjustment.

    Sorry to derail

    Which is what I mentioned in my post upthread... It is mostly from the number of steps but it is also related to your total calorie burn. People who underestimate their activity level when they set up MFP, and then the tracker shows that they are more active than MFP calculates - end up with larger adjustments than people who set their activity to lightly active or active and then the tracker agrees with that assessment.

    Appears mine tends to agree with assessment :) Which is a good thing IMO. That is also normally has some exercise calories taken out cause I track my exercises as well -- so on the day mentioned above I also had a workout of 350 calories so my end was only a 30 calorie adjustment. I had just never looked at it.
  • Tacklewasher
    Tacklewasher Posts: 7,122 Member
    I'm confused.

    You got 240 calories for under 3K steps? Or did you also do weight training and not log it separately? 240 is way too much for 3000 steps in a day. But not if you worked out in those 3000 steps.

    I'm really finding my Garmin to be spot on. This last week, MFP has me under my goal (1 lb per week) by ~1650 calories and I'm down 1.5 lbs. It's been consistent for me for months now.
  • misnomer1
    misnomer1 Posts: 646 Member
    edited October 2017
    WinoGelato wrote: »
    celiah909 wrote: »
    celiah909 wrote: »
    CyberTone wrote: »
    celiah909 wrote: »
    My Apple Watch is also connected but if I hit around 8000 steps I get a 55 calorie or so adjustment. I wonder why they differ so greatly.

    What is your MFP Activity Level set at? If it is above Sedentary/Not Very Active, most of the Calories from those steps may already be accounted for in your MFP Calorie goal. Also, how aggressive is your weekly loss rate? If you chose two pounds per week, your deficit (1000 Cals/day for 2lb. loss/week) may affect the adjustment. Did you do and record purposeful exercise on your Apple Watch? If so, some of the Calories from the steps may be reduced because of the additional Calories earned from logged exercise.

    I am actually set at the lowest -- sedentary
    Edit to add: I need to go check but I am pretty sure I am at .5 per week. I need to look more into this.

    I went to look cause a few days ago I verified I had a little over 8000 steps and a 30 calorie adjustment. Looks like my adjustment comes from what MFP says I burn in a day and what data my watch gives -- whatever the difference is ends up being my adjustment.

    Sorry to derail

    Which is what I mentioned in my post upthread... It is mostly from the number of steps but it is also related to your total calorie burn. People who underestimate their activity level when they set up MFP, and then the tracker shows that they are more active than MFP calculates - end up with larger adjustments than people who set their activity to lightly active or active and then the tracker agrees with that assessment.

    That is not the case with OP. The tracker says she took 3000steps that day and she says there was no workout that day. She should not be getting an adjustment of 240kcal at 'sedentary' on top of the kcal mfp already adds on top of BMR for 'sedentary'.

    I had the same issue when i synced google fit steps. My bmr is 1750. Mfp set at 'active' so maintenance is 2750ish. For 1lb a week loss daily goal was 2250.
    I walked 4000steps as tracked by google fit and the sync gave me an additional 400kcal that day. So mfp said i could eat 2250+400, ie 2650, which was clearly wrong. I couldnt fix it, so i removed the sync.
  • always_smilin_D
    always_smilin_D Posts: 89 Member
    I choose not to have the adjustment from my fitbit - personally I find it to be a false sense of calories burnt. For me, I only count calories burnt during actual exercise activity - when the heart rate increases ... I don't even have my fitbit connected. Also, I don't use it while lifting weights - it is inaccurate - specially if you are eating your calories back, you could be overeating based on the adjustment and the inaccuracy.
  • WinoGelato
    WinoGelato Posts: 13,454 Member
    misnomer1 wrote: »
    WinoGelato wrote: »
    celiah909 wrote: »
    celiah909 wrote: »
    CyberTone wrote: »
    celiah909 wrote: »
    My Apple Watch is also connected but if I hit around 8000 steps I get a 55 calorie or so adjustment. I wonder why they differ so greatly.

    What is your MFP Activity Level set at? If it is above Sedentary/Not Very Active, most of the Calories from those steps may already be accounted for in your MFP Calorie goal. Also, how aggressive is your weekly loss rate? If you chose two pounds per week, your deficit (1000 Cals/day for 2lb. loss/week) may affect the adjustment. Did you do and record purposeful exercise on your Apple Watch? If so, some of the Calories from the steps may be reduced because of the additional Calories earned from logged exercise.

    I am actually set at the lowest -- sedentary
    Edit to add: I need to go check but I am pretty sure I am at .5 per week. I need to look more into this.

    I went to look cause a few days ago I verified I had a little over 8000 steps and a 30 calorie adjustment. Looks like my adjustment comes from what MFP says I burn in a day and what data my watch gives -- whatever the difference is ends up being my adjustment.

    Sorry to derail

    Which is what I mentioned in my post upthread... It is mostly from the number of steps but it is also related to your total calorie burn. People who underestimate their activity level when they set up MFP, and then the tracker shows that they are more active than MFP calculates - end up with larger adjustments than people who set their activity to lightly active or active and then the tracker agrees with that assessment.

    That is not the case with OP. The tracker says she took 3000steps that day and she says there was no workout that day. She should not be getting an adjustment of 240kcal at 'sedentary' on top of the kcal mfp already adds on top of BMR for 'sedentary'.

    I had the same issue when i synced google fit steps. My bmr is 1750. Mfp set at 'active' so maintenance is 2750ish. For 1lb a week loss daily goal was 2250.
    I walked 4000steps as tracked by google fit and the sync gave me an additional 400kcal that day. So mfp said i could eat 2250+400, ie 2650, which was clearly wrong. I couldnt fix it, so i removed the sync.

    I was responding to @celiah909 , who isn't the OP, who said that she checked her adjustments and realizes that they come from more than just steps that it's a true up of total calories burned compared to what MFP thinks you should burn based on stats.

    As I said in my first post to OP, I can't speak to Garmin or any other devices accuracy but I have found FitBit and MFP to work quite well together. What I do see quite often is people not understanding how the devices work and sync together so I often try to make sure people understand that it's not always directly attributable to steps.

    And for OP, if you use the app, I imagine for the Garmin it would have something similar to FitBit, where you can click info and see what MFP thought you would burn and what Garmin says you're burning and see if the math itself is right. 240 adjustment for a low movement day is a lot, but if OPs original stats or goal in both systems aren't aligned then it's possible that MFP thinks her baseline NEAT is lower than what Garmin estimates and that she would get an adjustment like that every day. Or maybe the two are wonky and need to be unsynced, but I wouldn't immediately jump to that, and I would have probably looked more closely at your own numbers before dismissing it. Without knowing your stats, it's hard to know if your 1750 BMR, your 2750 active NEAT and then a 400 cal adjustment for 4000 steps is outrageous or not.
  • misnomer1
    misnomer1 Posts: 646 Member
    edited October 2017
    WinoGelato wrote: »
    Without knowing your stats, it's hard to know if your 1750 BMR, your 2750 active NEAT and then a 400 cal adjustment for 4000 steps is outrageous or not.

    I know my calorie stats very well because i tracked my weight loss with my calorie intake/calorie burn since 3 months on an excel sheet i have made for this purpose. I tried to solve my issue for 2 days and could not get it to work (even mfp technical staff couldnt help).
    I knew the sync was not working because to confirm i set my activity setting to highest level and still got large +ve adjustments for just 3000-5000steps, whereas it should have been a large negative number.
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